Quake was founded in April 2000 "to develop mixed-signal, physical layer ICs for 10 and 40 Gbps optical networking applications." Quake secured US $3 million in seed financing in April 2000 and raised US $15 million in second round financing in Q4 2000 from Mohr, Davidow Ventures and Skypoint Capital. Quake has roughly 55 employees and plans to double this number over the next year.

Quake recently introduced 2 high-speed, physical-layer chips. The QT2010 and QT1090 are fully integrated, single-chip transceivers for 10 and 40 Gbps speeds. Together, they form a two-chip PHY solution that requires a single 3.3V supply and consumes less than 2.5W.

Quake claims that the QT2010 is the first 10 Gbps SerDes transceiver. The device is Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) compliant, and delivers 9.953 to 10.3 Gbps speeds for Ethernet and SONET/ SDH applications. The QT2010 integrates a MUX, DEMUX, CDR, PLL, programmable transmit clock and data phase aligner, and internal serial loopback for diagnostic test. It offers SONET-compliant jitter performance and consumes 2.2W from a single 3.3V supply.

The QT1090 preamplifier is an integrated transimpedance-limiting amplifier that supports data rates in the 9.953 to 10.7 Gbps range for SONET/SDH and 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications. The device consumes only 170mW.

Samples of both products are available now; production will start in Q4 2001.
The QT1095, a 40 Gbps preamplifier consisting of an array of four 10 Gbps channels, is expected to sample in May. A 40 Gbps SERDES is planned for early 2002. Quake has not announced its SiGe fab, but it's a major player and there aren't many. The company claims to already have $5 million in commitments fro 2 customers.

Daniel Trépanier, President and CEO (previously Director of Marketing at ANADIGICS)

Sorin Voinigescu, CTO & founder (previously led Nortel's modeling infrastructure development, technology definition, prototyping, and testing of wireless ICs, and SONET OC-192 and OC-768 fiber-optic ICs in SiGe and InP HBT technologies)

Petre Popescu, VP, Product Development & founder (previously led design teams in high-speed IC design at Nortel)

Justin Chang, Director, Applications & founder (previously Manager of High Speed Datacom ICs at Agilent/HP's Fiber Optics Communications Division)

Carolyn Raab, VP, Marketing (previously Senior Product Manager, Optical Networking ICs for Nortel's Microelectronics Group)

John Mein, VP of Sales (formerly VP of sales at Galileo)

Scott Bulbrook, Director, IC Operations (previously manager of IC test and product engineering for Nortel and MOSAID)

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